Engels short biography
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Biography of Friedrich Engels
1870-1895
In 1870 Friedrich Engels moved to London, where Karl Marx lived with his family. London was the centre of colonial world trade and British finance. Engels now lived officially tillsammans with the Irish worker Lizzie Burns, whom he married on her deathbed in 1878, in the expensive district of Primrose Hill at 122 Regent's Park Road.
Engels cultivated political friendships and correspondences throughout Europe. Free from gainful employment, the secretary of the International Workers' Association, who corresponded in many languages, now had time for political activities and discussions. He met with Karl Marx almost daglig. For the Marx daughters, he was the always generous “Uncle Angel” and also supported them and their partners. They were his surrogate family, with whom he enjoyed spending the summer holidays bygd the sea.
After Marx' death in 1883, Engels wanted to secure his scientific heritage, planned a Marx biography and a
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Biography of Engels
Marx-Engels Internet Archive
Engels, Frederick, socialist, born in Barmen on Nov. 28, 1820, the son of a well-to-do manufacturer. Took up commerce, but already at an early age began propagating radical and socialist ideas in newspaper articles and speeches. After working for some time as a clerk in Bremen and serving for one year as an army volunteer in Berlin in 1842, he went for two years to Manchester, where his father was co-owner of a cotton mill.
In 1844 he worked for the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher published by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx in Paris. In 1844 he returned to Barmen and in 1845 addressed communist meetings organised by Moses Hess and Gustav K?ttgen in Elberfeld. Then, until 1848, he lived alternately in Brussels and Paris; in 1846 he joined, with Marx, the secret Communist League, a predecessor of the International, and represented the Paris communities at the two League congresses in London in 1847. On the League's instruction
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Friedrich Engels was born on November 28, 1820, in Barmen, Germany, into a wealthy family with deep roots in the yarn and cloth industry. His father owned a textile factory in Barmen and was a partner in a cottonspinning factory in Manchester, England. At the age of 17, under pressure from his father, Friedrich began to acquire business experience. But as a spirited and precocious young man, he also published poetry, learned languages fluently, engaged in contemporary philosophical debates, and displayed a marked talent for journalism.
He was soon leading a double life as a businessman by day, and increasingly, a radical at night.1 Affiliating with left-wing intellectuals, he began a career as a political journalist under the pseudonym Friedrich Oswald. Among his more impressive early writings were his Letters From Wuppertal (1839), an eyewitness account of the evils of early industrialization and an attack on provincial bourgeois hypocrisy in the Rhineland district where he had